FatOne said:
University does next to nothing to improve intelligence, and in all too many cases does little to improve general knowledge levels.
You can lead a student to class, but you can't make him think.
That being said, generally speaking the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to go to university for a multitude of obvious reasons I need not expand on. Signaling theory and all that.
Although I've met many people at U who have been as stunned as me arse, it on average gets even worse, and much sadder for those who haven't bothered to try to go.
I've spent way too long in university.
To quote another student in one of my University tutorials many moons ago "ahhh I don't get this paragraph"... at which point I was stunned into falling off my chair. Ironic that the street hooker in the class got the A's and this "normal" kid couldn't even read LOL
Further my two best friends from high school who both went to University and COMPLETED their education can barely find a $12 an hour job, and now they have 20k+ debt to pay with next to no money....
I've known many a successful business owner without a degree.... I've run a successful consulting company in the past without one, and I mean I worked with the Senate, Police and Lawyers ......for the most part my lack of degree was never an issue and I was still considered a top expert in my field by the time I was 26. Further I knew a computer geek who NEVER went to school for it, that ended up pulling in 300k+ a year with a fortune 500 company. Studies have shown that 80% of the world's current millionaires have NOT completed post secondary education.
And many a genius in whatever field, end up being totally inept in some of the most basic of human interactions... so is that person intelligent or not, they are smart enought to figure out wierd ass mathematical equations but can't for the life of them deal with social situations.... Plus current IQ tests for the most part are quite culturally biased... well except for Mensa
Such yummy geeks come from them LOL